Last month we were in the bookstore and I was flipping through Bend the Rules Sewing. I decided to order it from Amazon to save money. Well you know I HAD to take advantage of the free shipping so I ordered Sew What! Skirts too. At the time, I was pretty excited because I was eager to sew some skirts for myself. Well it’s been over five weeks and the books FINALLY arrived today.

I didn’t notice when I was ordering but the skirt book wasn’t in stock for 4-6 weeks. And when I got the email saying when it was going to arrive I didn’t want to cancel it because I was saving money. So every time I thought about the books I’d kick myself thinking about how I could drive 10 minutes away to buy them. Now so much time has gone by that I have other projects that need fixing first before I start something new.


Not as if I could get much sewing done anyways. Drawing, yes. On the computer, yes. Reading, yes. But sewing. No. Too much concentration required. I don’t want to stop every few minutes. And why would I be stopping so frequently? Why Isabelle of course. She is being a regular little monkey. She’s getting into everything. She figured out how to get into the playpen by herself. One day she was playing near it and I had my back turned. When I turned back around she was inside. I was so surprised. But I figured she was nice and safe once inside so no worries. I turned away and next thing you know she got out by herself!

Ok she’s not a magic flying baby. It was by the couch and she was lowering herself in and pulling herself out by grabbing onto the arm of the couch. She’s gotten quite adept at using things to help her get up higher. I think the scariest was when she climbed on top of the ottoman that was sitting on top of her toybox. I worry she might fall on her head. And of course I can’t be sewing if I need to make sure she doesn’t break her little head open.